EMBARGO ON RUSSIAN IMPORTS.

Mt Benger Mail, 26 April 1933, Page 2

EMBARGO ON RUSSIAN IMPORTS.

N Z MAS NO OFFICIAL ADVICE. Christchurch, April 20. The attitude of the Now Zealand Government towards following the example of Great Britain and imposing an embargo on the importation of certain Russian goods was explained by the Prime Minister (Mr Forbes) in a telephone conversation from his home at Cheviot Ibis evening. Mr Forbes would md confirm the statement at tributt d t > him in a message floin Vmhiurten that “the Government v '.el take into considei,Hinn the >| t stion of prohibiting imports . i Russian goods into New Zealr 1!m pos n was, lie said, that Caldne! v>;. unlikely to consider l!u situalim at all unless and un;il it ivceiv d oftieial advice ol the embargo imposed by the British Government. So far no oftieial Information had reached him. nor i ia ,l ih. re been any official retpu st that New Zealand should take action in sympathy with the MomGovernment. Tin- Prime Minister is returning Wellington by the ferry steamer ~n Saturday night. \\ hello '- Cabinet will meet as soon ns Mombn will depend upon the number of Ministers at Parliament 1 lollse. PKTROI. SHIPMENT <>N WAT PR, IT eardinl; a paragraph appearing jn \i• s 1 ei'il a.' s is>ne sla.ting t! ;,} in 1 rad' circles it was illidcrs,o( d i lie re w ere no further ship n.nnts „f Russian petrol on the > V| are advised by the As s , ,| Motorists Petrol < 'o,. Ltd. the sob NAv, Zealand agents for .lie Russhm petrol, that further are actually on the water.